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Re: Becoming a Successful FRC Rookie

Thanks for your reply!

I realized after reading your post that I left out a lot of things and will be making a V2 of the doc just to add some of the things that you have reminded me of and have said.

Sponsors:
I did not put sponsor incentives into the document but should have. We actually have a sponsor packet that we have created and give out to all of our sponsors and have gradations there for different sponsorship levels.

Robot:
I think that we were lucky to inherit a robot that we could heavily modify/ use the parts to build a new one in the summer, but I agree it is hard to for every rookie. I think another interesting idea is to build one from old parts from neighboring teams.
I also did not mention it but we are planning on having a practice robot for after end of build so that we can continue practicing. I completely agree that it is a very useful tool.

Business is a key point I agree but recruiting "separately" for that in HS I have found is difficult. I think teaching our "leadership group" those skills (which is what we did/we are doing) is more beneficial.

We stay in touch with the teams in the area as the mentors for this new team are former mentors from the others. It has helped a lot no doubt as I had never ran a team before but only taught mechanical and programming aspects.
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Awtybots FRC 5829 Head Mentor 2015-Now.
Discobots FRC 2587 Mentor 2010 - 2014.
Discobots FRC 2587 President 2009-2010.
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